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InfoPath 2010 is unveiled at the SharePoint Conference
As many of you may know, the SharePoint Conference 2009 is taking place this week in Las Vegas, Nevada and it's been a particularly exciting week for the InfoPath product team. Over the past 3 years of product development, we have made huge investments Read More...
Associating a Custom Document Information Panel with an Office Document
When a custom Document Information Panel is associated with an Office document and/or template, the information needed to locate the Panel is contained in a custom XML data part stored with the document. I won’t go into the details of the way an Office Read More...
Submitting to a SharePoint List
As you know, submitting to a Microsoft Windows SharePoint form library from an InfoPath form is quite simple: just add a “submit” type of data connection to InfoPath and away you go. However, submitting to a SharePoint List is another matter. In this Read More...
Get the User Profile through MOSS Web Services
It is now easier than ever to pre-populate your InfoPath 2007 forms with the user profile information of the current user. Background: In Microsoft SharePoint Server 2003, the UserProfileService.GetUserProfileByName (string accountName ) web service method Read More...
All you wanted to know about browser compatibility
These articles will help you answer many of the questions you might have about Forms Services browser compatibility, rich-client only features, and the Design Checker. Title Details Audience Plan browser support (OSS) Describes the different levels of Read More...
Forms Services and multiple IIS Web Applications
We often get questions asking if the XmlFormView control can be used in a particular environment. Usually you will use it on a regular page that belongs to a WSS Site or on a page in _layouts folder of a WSS site. These scenarios are supported and covered Read More...
Populating form data from SharePoint List Views
The SharePoint list data connection in InfoPath is a great declarative way to bring in data from a SharePoint list, but it does have some limitations. For those willing to put in a little extra effort, there’s much more that can be done with SharePoint Read More...
More articles from the community
It's Friday, and on Fridays I usually try to dig up a cool article or two from the community 1) Patrick Tisseghem wrote a beautiful walkthrough on making browser forms show up in a web part - no code required, just follow the screenshots. 2) S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton Read More...
Workflow user experience in InfoPath
Microsoft Office SharePoint workflow can be described as a series of tasks implemented with specific business needs to help people manage their project tasks. In Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, we provide the workflows user experience for InfoPath forms. Read More...
Submitting to 'this' document library
Have you ever needed to develop an InfoPath form template that submits back to a SharePoint document library but you did not initially know the server or library name when developing the form? Or have a scenario where your InfoPath form template could Read More...
Relinking forms and form templates
We often see issues when people move forms and templates from one location to another. In fact, the linked nature of InfoPath forms and templates is probably one of the hardest aspects of InfoPath to understand. While the complexities can sometimes seem Read More...
Andrew May knows XML Forms on SharePoint
This is a shout out to Andrew May, who's posted some great content on SharePoint as it relates to InfoPath and XML more generally. His most recent post covers the new Form content type that InfoPath uses for its Content Types integration. H e's also got Read More...
Improvements to Share Point integration - Property demotion
One of the new features in InfoPath 2007 when publishing to a SharePoint 2007 server is the ability to turn on property demotion. Property demotion is the ability to be able to modify fields that show up in SharePoint document libraries and cause those Read More...
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